Posts by Damian Christie
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Techy question, which I guess I should direct within my own organisation but it's just easier to pick brains here:
Is there going to be a Freeview box with a built in PVR recorder thingy?
Because I've realised that as much as I love MySky, more than 95% of the programmes I record are ones that are on the freely available channels. So I could dump my MySky and just use my video recorder sure, but it's the ease of the whole built-in-schedule recording-by-programme with series link etc that makes MySky so damn good.
Otherwise, any good workarounds someone can suggest?
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This is about as Wellywood as it gets, the new Phoenix Foundation single off the album Happy Ending, which is out October 8, directed by Taika Waititi (Eagle vs Shark etc)
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Given that my sources tell me that that journalist responded to my post on the matter by dismissing me as "some nutter" ...I don't feel any compunction at the use of the word "ignorant".
That's right. He's not "some nutter". He's our nutter.
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How many news reporters (Damian excluded) are smarter than a 5 year old?
Thanks for the compliment (if being called 'smarter than a 5 year old' is much to be proud of), but I'd argue that most journos I work with are pretty smart. Though it's probably fair to say none of us are missing our Mensa luncheons in favour of a quick bite at our desk...
I come back to the problem not necessarily being a lack of intelligence, but wisdom, or expertise. One day we're off doing a story about the calici virus in rabbits, the next it's problems with manufacturing goods in china, the high NZ dollar, funding for herceptin etc.
Only Leighton Smith pretends to have the answers to all those problems. The rest of us just try and ask the right questions and hope the people we're interviewing know a hell of a lot more than we do.
And yes, I'm 33 and know who Holyoake was, perhaps the question should be how many 50 year olds know what a blog is. Or facebook. Or format shifting.
(And I'm not asking the 50 year olds in this blog's audience, clearly)
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You end up not so much commenting as explaining the story to them. Most of what you say turns up in the script and you're onscreen for about 15 seconds with a soundbite.
Yeah but I think in fairness that is part of the point of the interview, no? Otherwise are you saying they should know the entire story before talking to the people involved, and just use your quotes for colour?
I'm always learning stuff from the people I interview - and whether it's print or TV - some of it ends up in quote marks, some of it goes to the underlying understanding.
At least the younger journos should have a better understanding of the newfangled techno stuff. I think PublicAddress had been going for about 3 years and I was still being asked almost daily by journos (of all flavours) "So what's this blogging thing all about?"
It should (maybe?) be seen as something of an advance that journalists are actually USING blogs as a source of story ideas, quotes and so forth, rather than just doing stories ABOUT this 'brand-new' concept called blogging. Maybe in a year or two these other wrinkles will be ironed out too.
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my interactions with reporters over the years suggest to me that it's actually just normal. With a few shining exceptions, reporters make mistakes and exhibit ignorance all the time, but we only notice this where we have personal knowledge or expertise.
True. It amazes me how often I read in the paper something I have personal knowledge about and can pick out the errors. Which means we have to assume that everything else is similarly flawed, when read by someone with expertise in that field.
(This is not because reporters are bad or stupid, but because they're short on time and resources, not rewarded for getting it right, and importantly, no smarter or more expert than the rest of us).
True again. And with each reporter that heads off for better money in PR/Comms, leaving a 20 year old in their place, you could say they're actually less expert than many of us. When a journo doesn't know who David Lange is, for example, you might have cause to despair. Personally I'm in favour of reporters having set rounds where they can specialise and become sort-of experts, but again in NZ we're a bit restricted by our size, unless you have a large number of reporters, you can't have that many specialities.
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But do TV news reporters in NZ get instructed what line of questions to ask as well? Leanne Malcolm's always struck me as a reasonably on-to-it journo, so I was puzzled by the inane questions.
Yeah we can get instructed as such, for example if we get told to go to a press conference and only ask about such-and-such because that's the angle the bosses are interested in. For example I might go to a NZRFU press conference and only ask about the uniforms or whatever, because that's the story we want. OTOH, if I asked only out-of-the-blue questions about whether Chris Jack would like to play for the Warriors, and then ran a story saying he's intending to, that's probably a better analogy.
I didn't see the Hilton story on 3, only heard about it this morning when the breakfast jocks on The Rock were slagging it off as a news story. Gotta say, if even breakfast Rock jocks are criticising a story's newsworthiness...
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And Felix, really don't want to pick nits, but if you're going to comment on my blog, you could at least spell my name right :)
(If someone googles my name, I'd hate for it not to be linked to a conversation about Gallery excess and female ejaculation)
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No, I had to go back and check myself: that's female ejaculation, aka squirting, she was referring to.
*Finally* this thread is getting on the right track. :)
And what an amazing rollercoaster ride it's been. I start off talking about strippers, we have a huge foray into the state of modern feminism and other such topics, then end up with Russell talking about squirting.
Actually, it sounds like so many of my Friday nights out...
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Of course, for the male hetero brain 'straight sex' includes 'two or more hot women pretending to be lesbians' ...
Oh great IO, now you're saying that if they're hot then they must be pretending to be lesbians? And I thought we'd come so far... ;)